werik
2011-11-22, 03:05 AM
Background information on what got me in to this particular mess...
Hey everyone. So I just got done playing for the night and we concluded on some rather unfortunate news for me. To give you my background my character is a 6th level cleric of Vecna and therefore am about as interested in the arcane as I am in the divine and actually serve as the only spellcaster in our party. I started off this session with a spirit haunting me, telling me to destroy this really important quest item, a wizard's spellbook, which I obviously didn't want to do. The spirit was actually the former owner of the item and he was extremely insistent claiming that "it was in danger" and I was "too weak" to wield its power. Blah blah blah. I tried ignoring it, but since this spirit kept coming to me in the night while I was trancing (elf) and telling me to destroy it, I realized that I needed to get rid of the bugger. So I went to speak to our neighbor, a powerful lich who has taken me on as his apprentice (evil) and who wants this quest item more than anything, but doesn't know that I have it or at least is willing to tolerate me having it for awhile. In any event, he taught me a way to anchor the spirit into a jar via a complicated ritual and an incantation. After I mastered the ritual and prepared it I sealed the spirit into the jar and generally reveled in my victory. But then I started talking to the spirit. The spirit kept going on and on about how I needed to destroy the book and so I told it that if it taught me everything inside the book that I wouldn't really need it anymore and I would destroy it. The spirit condescendingly advised me that if I asked it to teach me a certain spell it would do just that.
An unrelated problem was allowing ethereal creatures into the house that me and my fellow party members live in. They weren't really that big of a problem, but they were kind of annoying and so I wanted to get rid of them. I relayed this information to the spirit and he started making suggestions. We eventually concluded that a "prolonged dimension door" spell would let me pop into the ethereal plane, get the creatures out of the way, and then pop back into our house. Since dimension door is a sorcerer/wizard spell and I'm a cleric I would also have to learn how to do it via an incantation. I prepared the incantation and cast it when none of the other party members are at home, because the job sounded like it would be really easy. When I finished the incantation I noticed a portal before me leading to the ethereal plane. I stepped through it and sure enough I could see the house sort of hazily and the creatures plaguing us. But then it kept going. Before you know it I was standing in a patch of fog with the creatures before me and no sign of the house, or anything for that matter, as far as the eye could see. Oh, and that portal that I walked through definitely sealed itself behind me. Yep, the spirit in the jar totally tricked me and I appear stuck there. "Why don't you perform the same incantation on this plane and send yourself home," you might ask. The answer to that is that the incantation requires a lot of material components that I did not take with me.
Which brings me to the problem at hand. I'm stuck in this plane and I need to find my way back to the Material Plane as soon as possible. My character and I don't know exactly what plane I'm on and I'm not supposed to look it up, so please don't tell me any solutions that involve those planes themselves. Thankfully, we will be leveling up between our next session which will make me a 7th level cleric of Vecna. This will give me access to 4th level spells that should be able to get me out of this jam. My first question is whether casting Dismissal on myself would bring me back to the Material plane. Since I am an extraplanar creature (to this plane, anyway) it should get me home provided I don't unfortunately roll in the 20% that would send me to any other plane. If that doesn't work, I should be able to cast Lesser Planar Ally. Hopefully Vecna would send me something that could just Plane Shift me home. If not, hopefully it could collect the material components that would allow me to perform the incantation again so that I can get back. 4th level spells also give me access to Sending and Divination which should allow me to contact my fellow party members, the lich (if need be), and even Vecna to give me some pointers on how to get back.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the Dismissal spell or other ideas of how to get back assuming that I can't get anyone to help me?
Hey everyone. So I just got done playing for the night and we concluded on some rather unfortunate news for me. To give you my background my character is a 6th level cleric of Vecna and therefore am about as interested in the arcane as I am in the divine and actually serve as the only spellcaster in our party. I started off this session with a spirit haunting me, telling me to destroy this really important quest item, a wizard's spellbook, which I obviously didn't want to do. The spirit was actually the former owner of the item and he was extremely insistent claiming that "it was in danger" and I was "too weak" to wield its power. Blah blah blah. I tried ignoring it, but since this spirit kept coming to me in the night while I was trancing (elf) and telling me to destroy it, I realized that I needed to get rid of the bugger. So I went to speak to our neighbor, a powerful lich who has taken me on as his apprentice (evil) and who wants this quest item more than anything, but doesn't know that I have it or at least is willing to tolerate me having it for awhile. In any event, he taught me a way to anchor the spirit into a jar via a complicated ritual and an incantation. After I mastered the ritual and prepared it I sealed the spirit into the jar and generally reveled in my victory. But then I started talking to the spirit. The spirit kept going on and on about how I needed to destroy the book and so I told it that if it taught me everything inside the book that I wouldn't really need it anymore and I would destroy it. The spirit condescendingly advised me that if I asked it to teach me a certain spell it would do just that.
An unrelated problem was allowing ethereal creatures into the house that me and my fellow party members live in. They weren't really that big of a problem, but they were kind of annoying and so I wanted to get rid of them. I relayed this information to the spirit and he started making suggestions. We eventually concluded that a "prolonged dimension door" spell would let me pop into the ethereal plane, get the creatures out of the way, and then pop back into our house. Since dimension door is a sorcerer/wizard spell and I'm a cleric I would also have to learn how to do it via an incantation. I prepared the incantation and cast it when none of the other party members are at home, because the job sounded like it would be really easy. When I finished the incantation I noticed a portal before me leading to the ethereal plane. I stepped through it and sure enough I could see the house sort of hazily and the creatures plaguing us. But then it kept going. Before you know it I was standing in a patch of fog with the creatures before me and no sign of the house, or anything for that matter, as far as the eye could see. Oh, and that portal that I walked through definitely sealed itself behind me. Yep, the spirit in the jar totally tricked me and I appear stuck there. "Why don't you perform the same incantation on this plane and send yourself home," you might ask. The answer to that is that the incantation requires a lot of material components that I did not take with me.
Which brings me to the problem at hand. I'm stuck in this plane and I need to find my way back to the Material Plane as soon as possible. My character and I don't know exactly what plane I'm on and I'm not supposed to look it up, so please don't tell me any solutions that involve those planes themselves. Thankfully, we will be leveling up between our next session which will make me a 7th level cleric of Vecna. This will give me access to 4th level spells that should be able to get me out of this jam. My first question is whether casting Dismissal on myself would bring me back to the Material plane. Since I am an extraplanar creature (to this plane, anyway) it should get me home provided I don't unfortunately roll in the 20% that would send me to any other plane. If that doesn't work, I should be able to cast Lesser Planar Ally. Hopefully Vecna would send me something that could just Plane Shift me home. If not, hopefully it could collect the material components that would allow me to perform the incantation again so that I can get back. 4th level spells also give me access to Sending and Divination which should allow me to contact my fellow party members, the lich (if need be), and even Vecna to give me some pointers on how to get back.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the Dismissal spell or other ideas of how to get back assuming that I can't get anyone to help me?